Open Beta Announcement

Gentoo Studio’s latest installation is now in open beta. This means I am asking people to install and use Gentoo Studio and let me know how it goes. Your feedback will be used to improve Gentoo Studio.

To participate in the beta, simply go to the Installation page linked above and follow the instructions there.

I know, and I agree. I like the idea very much, but I’m just one guy here, and there’s a lot on my plate. I need to make sure maintenance is manageable. Before I build an updated install tarball, I actually emerge the updates on a VM, and any issues that arise have to be handled manually and then duplicated by catalyst. So I’ll have to admit to being human.

It should be easy to customize whatever you want to from a “Complete” install, though. Also, there’s not a whole lot that’s actually usable for mix/mastering engineers and musicians without a DE, so going with one (user-customizeable) install makes sense for a one-man distro op.

That said, if anyone wants to create and maintain other flavors of Gentoo Studio, I will happily host those tarballs once I do an install test for them and verify with the maintainer what they’re supposed to do.